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Cowboy Detectives

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W.B. Sayers and Charles Siringo were lawmen who chased after The Wild Bunch, a gang of thieves. Siringo later wrote about his exploits in his book, “The Cowboy Detectives,” but changed many people’s names (including Sayers, who became W.O. Sayles) to protect their anonymity.